Gavin McInnes
Canadian far-right commentator
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| June 2024 | Radio personality Anthony Cumia announced the closure of Compound Media and a merger with Gavin McInnes' Censored.TV network, leading to the creation of Compound Censored. |
| December 2022 | McInnes interviewed Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, discussing controversial views about antisemitism. |
| September 6 2022 | McInnes returned to the public after his fake arrest prank was revealed. |
| August 27 2022 | McInnes staged a fake arrest during a live Censored.TV broadcast, which was later exposed as a prank by Owen Benjamin. |
| May 2021 | Milo Yiannopoulos claimed Censored.TV was laying off staff and lacked funding, which McInnes later dismissed. |
| 2020 | Appeared in the documentary 'White Noise', which discussed an alleged incident with Lauren Southern from 2018. |
| 2020 | Appeared as himself in the film White Noise. |
| June 2020 | YouTube suspends McInnes's account for violating policies concerning hate speech by posting content that was 'glorifying and inciting violence against another person or group of people'. |
| 2019 | McInnes launched Censored.TV (originally FreeSpeech.TV), an online video platform featuring his daily show Get Off My Lawn (GOML). |
| February 2019 | McInnes filed a defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center over their designation of the Proud Boys as a 'general hate' group. |
| 2018 | McInnes made controversial statements about South African farm attacks, claiming that black South Africans were not 'trying to get their land back' and asserting there were 'ethnic cleansing' efforts against white South Africans. |
| December 10 2018 | YouTube banned McInnes' account for multiple copyright infringement claims, adding to previous bans from Amazon, PayPal, Twitter, and Facebook. |
| December 8 2018 | McInnes was unexpectedly disassociated from Blaze Media without publicly disclosed reasons. |
| December 3 2018 | McInnes' program 'Get Off My Lawn' transitioned to Blaze Media after a merger between Conservative Review Television and TheBlaze. |
| November 2018 | Australian immigration authorities denied McInnes a visa for a planned speaking tour, following an online campaign called '#BanGavin' that collected 81,000 signatures. |
| November 2018 | An internal memo from the Clark County, Washington Sheriff's Office, based on an FBI briefing, reported that the FBI classified the Proud Boys as 'an extremist group with ties to white nationalism'. |
| November 21 2018 | McInnes publicly stepped down from the Proud Boys, claiming it was a legal gesture to help alleviate potential sentencing for nine members being prosecuted. |
| October 12 2018 | McInnes participated in a controversial reenactment of a political assassination at the Metropolitan Republican Club, after which Proud Boys members were filmed beating a protester. |
| August 10 2018 | Twitter permanently suspended McInnes' account and the Proud Boys account, citing rules against violent extremist groups, ahead of the Unite the Right anniversary. |
| June 2018 | Allegedly sexually propositioned alt-right activist Lauren Southern after an appearance on his show, which he later denied. |
| April 2018 | McInnes made inflammatory statements about Muslims, claiming they are prone to inbreeding and mental illness, and equating Islam with fascism. |
| September 22 2017 | Debuted his new show 'Get Off My Lawn' on CRTV, an online television network launched by Conservative Review. |
| August 2017 | Left Rebel News, declaring he would be 'a multi-media Howard Stern-meets-Tucker Carlson'. |
| March 2017 | McInnes toured Israel with Rebel Media hosts and created a controversial video where he made antisemitic comments, which he later claimed were taken out of context. |
| February 2017 | McInnes gave a speech at New York University where he explicitly advocated for violence, stating 'Violence doesn't feel good, justified violence feels great, and fighting solves everything. ... I want violence. I want punching in the face.' |
| 2016 | Founds the Proud Boys, an American far-right militant organization. |
| 2016 | McInnes contributed to the book 'Black Lies Matter', a publication that criticizes the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| 2015 | Acted as Scott in the film Creative Control. |
| 2015 | Played a Record Producer in the film One More Time. |
| June 15 2015 | Premiered The Gavin McInnes Show on Compound Media, after being announced by broadcaster Anthony Cumia in June. |
| August 2014 | Asked to take an indefinite leave of absence as chief creative officer of Rooster following a controversial essay about transphobia published on Thought Catalog. |
| 2013 | Directed the documentary 'The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants' about his standup comedy tour, during which he faked a serious car accident. Also starred in the independent film 'How to Be a Man', which premiered at Sundance Next Weekend. |
| October 2013 | Participated in a panel interview where he claimed that 'people would be happier if women would stop pretending to be men' and argued that feminism has made women less happy. This led to a heated argument with University of Miami School of Law professor Mary Anne Franks. |
| 2012 | Wrote a memoir book titled 'How to Piss in Public'. |
| 2011 | Continued voicing the character Mick in Soul Quest Overdrive television series. |
| May 25 2011 | Four episodes of Soul Quest Overdrive aired in Adult Swim's 4 AM DVR Theater block before being quickly cancelled. |
| 2010 | Approached by Adult Swim to play Mick, an anthropomorphic Scottish soccer ball, in the short-lived Aqua Teen Hunger Force spin-off Soul Quest Overdrive. |
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